Lyrics to
Hard Luck Woman

This version of Hard Luck Woman was released by Kiss in 1976.

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If never I met you
I’d never have seen you cry
If not for our first “Hello”
We’d never have to say goodbye
If never I held you
My feelin’s would never show
It’s time I start walkin’
But there’s so much you’ll never know
I keep telling you hard luck woman
You ain’t a hard luck woman
Rags, the sailor’s only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen

Rags, I really love you
I can’t forget about you
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Before I go let me kiss you
And wipe the tears from your eyes
I don’t wanna hurt you, girl
You know I could never lie
I keep telling you hard luck woman
You ain’t a hard luck woman
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Rags, the sailor’s only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen
Rags, I really love you
I can’t forget about you
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Oh yeah, bye bye, so long, don’t cry
I’m just packin’ my bags, whoo, leavin’ you
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, baby, don’t cry
I gotta keep on movin’, yeah movin’
Bye, bye my baby
Ooh, don’t cry, lady, oh

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About Lyrics and Hard Luck Woman by Kiss

When you decide to study the lyrics to Hard Luck Woman, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Kiss. Some of the lyrics to Hard Luck Woman have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kiss and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Hard Luck Woman if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hard Luck Woman" means the words set to the music of Hard Luck Woman, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kiss. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hard Luck Woman and the lyrics to Hard Luck Woman are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kiss who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hard Luck Woman, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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